On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, John Wilkes wrote:
> I recently stumbled onto VNC, and it is awesome! Having a Win95 session
> running in an X window is a dream come true.
>> My client machine is a Linux 2.0.33 system with Fvwm version 2.0.42a and I
> have noticed that vncviewer confuses the Fvwm95 task bar. It seems to
> randomly "steal" the button of some other window. One time VNC will be
> attached to a button labeled "Netscape" and my real Netscape window will
> not have a button. Another time VNC might grab a button belonging to an
> xterm window. Sometimes, the task bar crashes when vcnviewer exits.
>> Has anyone else seen this? Is it a Fvwm problem?
When I ran the Amiga Window Manager (amiwm), I noticed that vncviewer
doesn't have an iconised name. I suspect that this is what's causing the
problem - fvwm95 may be using the iconised name to distinguish windows.
Cheers,
James "Wez" Weatherall
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